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Part Num ber 900-563 Revision A Septem ber 200 9 XPort™ Universal Demo Board User Guide[...]
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XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 2 Copy right and Trademark © 2009 Lantronix. All rights r eserved. No part of the contents of this book m ay be transm itted or reproduced in an y form or by any means without the written perm ission of Lantronix. Pr inted in the United States of Am erica. Ethernet is a tra demark of XEROX Corporation. UNI[...]
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XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 3 Contents Copyright and T rademark ............................. ................................. ............................... 2 Contacts ............................. ................................. .................................. ........................ 2 Disclaimer and R evisions .............[...]
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XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 4 1 1 . . I I n n t t r r o o d d u u c c t t i i o o n n A bout t his Guide This guide pro vides the inform ation needed to use the XPort and XPort Pro device servers with the Un iversal Dem o Kit. The intended au dience is the eng ineers responsible for i ntegrating the XPort into their product. Notes: ?[...]
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1 Introduction XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 5 A ddit ional Documentation The following gui des are av ailable on the Lantro nix website ( ww w.lantronix.com ). Hardware Related XPort Integration Gu ide Provides inform ation for integrating t he XPort m odule on a custom er platform. XPort Pro Integration Guide Provides inform ation abo[...]
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XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 6 2 2 . . D D e e m m o o n n s s t t r r a a t t i i o o n n K K i i t t Using an XPort s ample and the XPort Dem onstration Kit, you can get fam iliar with the product and und erstand how to integrate the XPort into a given prod uct design. Contents of the Kit The XPort Dem onstration Kit cont ains the fo[...]
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2 Demonstration Kit XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 7 Demo Board Block Diagram The following dr awing is a block diagram of the XPort Dem o Board showing the relationships of th e components. Figure 2-1. Demo Board Block Diagram Serial Interfaces The dem o board has an RS-232 trans ceiver for conn ection to the XPor t internal UART. T he [...]
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2 Demonstration Kit XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 8 Power Supply The dem o board uses an exter nal 3.3V regulated supply (included with kit). General Control The following tab les denote the configuration of the dem o board. Configuring th e jumpers r e-routes signals on the dem o board to use as Serial co ntrol signals, or to connect t[...]
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2 Demonstration Kit XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 9 Configuration for Modem Control By default, on th is demo board, th e DCD and DSR signals are not r outed to the XPort module. This m akes it necess ary to jumper the pins i n JP6 in order to route the signals to the des ired CPs on the X Port module. To be specific, if you wanted to r[...]
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2 Demonstration Kit XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 10 Demo Board Schematics Figure 2-3. Demo Board Schematics[...]
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2 Demonstration Kit XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 11 Figure 2-4. RS232 Transceiver[...]
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XPort™ Universal Demo Board User G uide 12 A A : : W W a a r r r r a a n n t t y y For details on the L antronix warr anty replacem ent policy, go to our web site at http://www.lantron ix.com /support/warrant y/index.html.[...]